Mouth breathing as an insult

[Anonymous]

Can someone one please explain to me why being a mouth breather is used as an insult? I mean, I GET that mouth breathing isn’t physiologically optimal, but I don’t understand it as it’s used as a criticism.

[Anonymous]

Mouthbreathers look like they're missing a chromosome and have terrible breath. How could it be anything other than an insult?

[Anonymous]

Usually mouth breathers have a dull, zoned out look about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mouthbreathers look like they're missing a chromosome and have terrible breath. How could it be anything other than an insult?

This. Why do old people hang their mouths open all the time?

[Anonymous]

Mouth breathers actually have lower IQ. It's been proven.

[Anonymous]

I am very sensitive to this insult because I have a deviated septum. I definitely sometimes find myself opening my mouth to breath, especially if I am at all congested. But I try not to because I know people associate it with stupidity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am very sensitive to this insult because I have a deviated septum. I definitely sometimes find myself opening my mouth to breath, especially if I am at all congested. But I try not to because I know people associate it with stupidity.

It's more than just breathing through your slightly open mouth. It's the gape-jawed, glassy stare look that screams MAGA.

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking you have never seen a mouth breather or spoke to one because you would not be asking this question if you had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am very sensitive to this insult because I have a deviated septum. I definitely sometimes find myself opening my mouth to breath, especially if I am at all congested. But I try not to because I know people associate it with stupidity.

It's more than just breathing through your slightly open mouth. It's the gape-jawed, glassy stare look that screams MAGA.

It's that look that Beavis and Butthead have. It's a look that indicates someone isn't all there, because they're spaced out of their minds, or just regurgitate whatever they hear, and aren't capable of developing a coherent and independent thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am very sensitive to this insult because I have a deviated septum. I definitely sometimes find myself opening my mouth to breath, especially if I am at all congested. But I try not to because I know people associate it with stupidity.

Get it fixed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am very sensitive to this insult because I have a deviated septum. I definitely sometimes find myself opening my mouth to breath, especially if I am at all congested. But I try not to because I know people associate it with stupidity.

The insult isn’t truly about the act of breathing through your mouth…like others have said, it’s shorthand for someone slack-jawed, mouth agape, from stupidity.

[Anonymous]

It's gross. Don't you want to filter what goes into your mouth? Like flies?

[Anonymous]

Read the book Breath mouth breathers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's gross. Don't you want to filter what goes into your mouth? Like flies?

This was a joke, right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read the book Breath mouth breathers!

There is a whole book about it??????